St Leo University - Golden Legend Yearbook (St Leo, FL)

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President of the C ollege Reverend M arion Bowman, O. S. B. W

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Someday, perhaps before 2000 AD.. it may be possi- ble to transmit matter, as energy, around the world. and reeonstitute it as matter at the other end. Ships. eargo aireraft, and liig transeontinental truelas may het-ome oh- soletef' The quotation is from the 1970 issue ol' Ener- gy: Transaetions in Tinief' a Kaiser News puhlieation and not a .lules Verne fietion fantasy. Today many of our values of tradition have been re- plaeed with our teehnology of built-in obsoleseenee. The results are relleeted not only in our teehnology hut also in our individual selves. Our aneestors were rooted in the earth of their villages and seldom traveled beyond its limits. Family treasures were handed down from genera- tion to generation. Personal assoeiations were elose and lasting. Megalopolis and automation have resulted in deper- sonalization - even here on our own small eampus. Modern transportation has made us a raee ot' nomads wdere even our planet no longer has borders. We move so fast that we are even searehing lior ways to use our lei- sure. We have instant breakfast. instant friendships and instant sex. You eollegians are a produet oli this instant eivilixa- tion. You demand instant answers and solutions to a multitude of our serious problems. And one heirloom you definitely will not aeeept is the tradition of war handed down to you from your parents and grandpar- ents. Neither are you interested in aeeepting the philoso- phy of eorporate eonglomerates who preaeh push button produetion for instant purehase and eomputerized prot- itsg nor are you interested in a selli perpetuating bureaue- racy of government that demands your serviee in the propagation of war while it preaehes the Christian eon- Cept of love thy neighborf' What you are interested in is peaee through loy e. Christ preaehed love for the purpose of the reeoneilia- tion of man. How ean we of twentieth eentury het-onie reeoneiled with eaeh other? Robert Ardrey. author of Man and Aggression... writes that. To understand a man today. one must understand a fourth dimension 4 his entire genetie past as liar hat-lt as one ean probe. He says that it' we emhraee the reality of man. ineluding his past, there is an opportunity for solving today's ills. .Xnd Kathy Hyland, writing in Energy: Transaetions in Timef' observes that ln addition to his inereasing reli- anee on seientilie diseoyeries and teehnologieal advan- ees, man should look to himselt' as the eomplete. most vital form ol' energy anywhere. Reeoneiliation. then. requires tiirst ol' all a reeognition ofthe greatness and worth of eaeh one ol us as an indi- vidual: a seareh into our past and a loolv into our future. This is not easily done and poses many problems. But you and I have to attempt it and we must do it ili brother is to be reeoneiled with brother and live in the harmony of peaee and love. Rev. Marion Bowman. OSB President of'S111'111 Leo College